The fallacy of coercive power

This is also why most hierarchies fail. Top-down doesn’t work. It looks increasingly like the US will bail on Iraq in June, by which time I expect the US casualty count to top 10,000 as I predicted back in March. (The current casualty count is slightly above...

The 11th hour

Hard to get thrilled about Veterans Day when the Commander-in-Chief is such a nincompoop. Veterans Day in the middle of an illegal US invasion of a foreign country might seem like a tough sell, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the American media. Except that...

Jonah in the dunk tank

No fuss, no muss. Good brunch. And poured water only. No dunk. Sweetness for the new boy! Jonah received the Roman Catholic Sacrament of Baptism this afternoon in the font at Queen of Peace. Father George Wolf presided. Beside the obvious trio of Erin, Jonah, and me,...

To the Starrs and back

I love parties that go on and on, playing my favorite songs, and…and…twins! First things first: We saw Matt, Ginger, and Laura in the hospital last night, and everybody’s doing great. I held Laura for a while, and after lugging Jonah’s almost...

Good news about kids

Jonah checks out OK, and Laura Ellen Ogle enters the world. Jonah’s six-month Well Baby check out went flawlessly. He’s 17 lbs. 10 oz. and 27.25″ long. On the EPIC charts, that’s roughly the 50 percentile for weigh and the 75th percentile for...